presumably someone has booked a slot in Stephen Fry's diary this time
around?

They have, but the audio version won't be available until August 25. is
anyone actually going to order the braille version then? yes I admit
braille is bulky but I'm perfectly happy to read a book in that format,
that's what it's for after all. Like I said I would have liked to have
seen Daisy audio, but this might well have needed to be produced using
concatenated speech rather than a human reader. Then there is the myth
that all blind people read braille, I encounter this a lot and wouldn't
be surprised if it is shared by the publishers.